That’s the ticket. You don’t need anything more than the cover to define the lead-up: You want to grab the book and open it and find out if Mr. Half-Naked or whatever he’s called managed to snuff out the bomb.

No complaints with this one and it sort of makes me feel better because I think I have yet to suggest a Kirby hero cover. As I am biased towards the unusual I might have dismissed some candidates just because I’ve seen them a million times. There is also my sense that later Kirby drew more dioramas – even some “action” covers seem quite static. And of course you could make a good-sized stack of books where a titanic being is gesturing and other characters stand in astonishment (I guess that should be “Astonishment”).

I don’t want to miss a day and I have yet to get to the Gerbers, so if for nothing other than my own edification I will just look at #11s today. Maybe I can move to the five days ahead this weekend. Of course we have Batman #11 so we can pack up and go home for tomorrow. This choice would be classical over baroque so here are some more:

All Winners
Cowgirl Romances
Fight Comics
Sub-Mariner Comics

I thought about Captain Flight but I felt like I was succumbing to Cole mania. It’s a cool and kind of trippy cover, but I continue to feel like Schomburg has it all over Cole,